MacKay_Letter_025
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Title
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MacKay_Letter_025
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Description
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Letter from Hector McKay in Conesus Lake, New York to his brother Mordecai McKay in Pennsylvania. He describes how and what the family is doing. May 15 1811. Letter is blurred in spots and difficult to read.
Transcription:
[front]
Mr Mordecai McKay
Sunbury
North County
[back]
D[ea]r Brother its long time sense I have taken my pen to [?] a word or two to you haveing so good an opportunity that mother is well at my house Also our Brothers and Sisters are all well Sister Jane hath one son and calls him Mordecai McKay Whaley John hath two sons Robert two daughters Daniel two daughters and poor me one Daughter & two sons - Brother Robt started last Satderday to montreall withe larg cargo of flower [?] he keeps very large assortment goods for sale at the Big Spring
Mother his feble But she can ride twelve mils [miles] in a day yet but that be making but [?] [?] to get to Sunbury to see you and yours but she expect god willing to [?] all her chilldren and grand chilldren in this Counry this summer she cannot think of going Pennsylvania in her life time
Hugh Harrison Esq. departed this life by a stroke he got at Bosleys saw mill Brother Daniel hath been preparing lumber to go down the Ohio River with but watters keeps still so that I dont expect he will get down this season - I must think you have for got me alltogether Mr. Brewer and family arrived here last friday in good order
[envelope]
From Conesus Lake May 15 1811
Written on the envelope at a later time:
Letter of Hector McKay Second Son of Robert and Jenet McDonald McKay. To Mordecai McKay his brother - the grandfather of Anna McK McDonald at Sunbury Northumberland Co. Penn
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Identifier
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MacKay_Letter_025.01-4.jpg
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Creator
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Renee Guerin
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Subject
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Letter
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Publisher
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Izzy Moyer; Kristen Walker; Jill Johnson; and Renee Guerin
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Date
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1811.05.15
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Date Created
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2023.10.25
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Type
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Correspondence
Letter
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Format
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.jpg
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Medium
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Paper
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Rights Holder
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Genesee Country Village & Museum
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Rights
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